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TIL that Mithalal Sindhi, from the Indian city of Ahmedabad, has been hоmеless by choice (so he will be easier to find) for over 50 years, and during that time has performed the last rites on more than 550 unclaimed bodies, each per their own religion, covering all the expenses from his own earnings

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